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>>TITLE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDYMEDIA : Looking Back Five Years to the
>>Battle of Seattle
>>SUBTITLE: INDYMEDIA
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>>PIC: http://santacruz.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/5/democracy_wto.jpg
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>>ABSTRACT:
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>><p>We had a collective vision, five years ago, at the <a
>>href="http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13060/index.php">WTO
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>>protests</a> in <a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org">Seattle<a/>. We
>>saw beyond the borders that divide us. We
>>saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural
>>difference and stand up in a way that we had not seen in this country
>>for decades. We saw peaceful protests shut down one of the most powerful
>>institutions in the world and we saw a system dazed and frightened by
>>the sound of our voices.</p>
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>><p>November 30, 1999 represented a triumphant moment for worldwide civil
>>resistance against a global economic system that gives private
>>corporations more power than governments. In the morning hours of N30,
>>1999, tens of thousands of activists from across the globe converged in
>>the streets of downtown Seattle, to shut down meetings of the World
>>Trade Organization, the undemocratic, international governing forum of
>>neoliberal globalization.</p>
>>
>><p>The conflict became infamous around the world, partially because of
>>the
>>violent police response to the largely peaceful demonstrations. The
>>date is also remembered as the
>>birth of the Independent Media Center: <a
>>href="http://www.indymedia.org/">www.indymedia.org</a>, which has
>>since developed into a global network of over 150 different
>>Independent Media Centers.</p>
>>
>><p>[ AUDIO: <a
>>href=http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13061/index.php>This
>>is What Democracy Looks Like<a/> ]</br />
>>
>>[ <a
>>href=http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/134206/index.php>&quot;5
>>yrs on..&quot;<a/> - story on New York Indymedia | <a
>>href=http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/13076/index.php>origin
al
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>>atory</a> - Santacruz Indymedia ]</p>
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>>BODY:
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>><P>The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media
>>outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings
>>of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who
>>continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's
>>distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.</p>
>>
>><p>The Independent Media Center (<a
>>href="http://www.indymedia.org/">www.indymedia.org</a>), was
>>established by
>>various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in
>>1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the <a
>>href="http://www.gatt.org/">World Trade Organization<a/> (WTO)
>>protests in
>>Seattle. The center, built on the '<a
>>href="http://active.org.au/doc/">active</a>' software that had been
>>developed by the Sydney <a href="http://www.cat.org.au">Community
>>Action Technology/Catalyst</a> collective, acted as a clearinghouse of
>>information for
>>journalists and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and
>>video footage through the website. Using the collected footage, the
>>Seattle Independent Media Center (<a
>>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org">seattle.indymedia.org<a/>) produced a
>>series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and
>>distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.</p>
>>
>><p>The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout
>>Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of
>>audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour
>>micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses
>>a democratic open-publishing system, logged more than 2 million hits,
>>and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous
>>other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of
>>media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada,
>>Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. IMCs
>>have since been established on every continent, with more to come.</p>
>>
>><p>For more information, see the <a
>>href="http://process.indymedia.org/faq.php3">IMC Frequently Asked
>>Questions<a/>.</p>
>>
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